Kosovo: Lignite Power Technical Assistance Project

WASHINGTON, October 12, 2006 - The following project was approved today by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors:

 

IDA GRANT: US$8.5 million

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project will help Kosovo’s Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) to strengthen the enabling policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks conducive to new investments in the energy sector, and assist the PISG to attract qualified private investors to develop lignite mines and build new capacity for lignite thermal power generation. These goals will be guided by high standards of environmental and social sustainability.

 

For project details, please call Miriam Van Dyck at (202) 458-2931 or email mvandyck@worldbank.org

For more information, please visit:

http://web.worldbank.org/external/projects/main?pagePK=64283627&piPK=73230&theSitePK=40941&menuPK=228424&Projectid=P097635